Question

Do you know any plugin that redirects only users to certain store based on the IP (geolocation)?

I have found theese two:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/store-and-currency-auto-switcher.html

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/j2t-geoloc-va-automatic-store-and-currency-switch.html

but the problem is that they change also the currency and not only the store.

As an alternative does anyone know a simple coding method to do that? (I should mention that I do not have any knowledge of geolocation so I did not try any coding at all yet)

Thank you,
Mugur

Answer 1

Take a look at your index.php and see how it loads a website/store.

It is relatively simple to install a geoip module on both Apache and Nginx, this module will then enable you to have a $_SERVER value for country code. You can then place a simple php switch/case block in your index.php that sets the website/store values used to call Mage.php and have whatever logic in there to suit your setup.

I don’t believe the module route (even if one exists) is what you need given how straightforward it is to write the switch/case for your country->store mappings. You will also need to put in there some extra option for testing purposes, e.g. if the IP address requesting the page is your PC then show whatever store it is you need to test.